Let's Play These

Written on a very scatterbrained day, about a scatterbrained day.

All I want is a blade of grass
and the patience to teach it a tune.
All alone Monday night, again,
with a hundred of me in the room.

I need you to set me straight,
but you're soft.
I'm running beside myself,
but i'm lost.
When did I get this way?
I'm pissing me off!

Like a needle that skipped a track,
never sure if it's forward or back.
Checking boxes to fill a list
on a paper aloft in a drift.
All I want is a blade of grass
and the patience to teach it a tune.

I need you to set me straight,
but you're soft.
I'm running beside myself,
but i'm lost.
When did I get this way?
I'm pissing me off!

I'm Pissing Me Off

Made this in the last 3 hours.  It's my first new song in 15 months.  Sorry it has taken so long.  I've had a busy 2 years.  More soon.


Fiddlenecks

Let it rain 
Riding on the coattails of a saint 
Let it rain 
Wash away the nightmare and the pain 
with the rain 

Let it rain 
Soaking up the canvas with your paint 
Fiddelnecks in concert on the plain
in the rain 

Let it rain 
little drops of hopeless turned to shame 
spinning counter-slockwise in the drain 
Let it rain.


Fiddlenecks (rough edit)

A demo song about my affair with the Sun.  It's melody and guitar idea I had work out.  Not sure it's really the direction I want to go.  A bit too literal.  I like the 2nd Bridge though. 

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Summer Daze
Greg Gibbs
For fun,  I was worshiping the sun 
on a beach not far away 

In a dance on the ripples in the sands 
In a long hot summer daze 

As you drift across the sky... 
Like  a sailer 

A billion stars that shine 
You're the only one I see today 

I woke up in the middle of the sun. 
In a long hot summer daze 

Our escape to a blanket by the lake 
All alone on a holiday 

As you struck across the sky 
Like a laser 

Within a billion miles 
You're the only one I see today 

On a rock 8 minutes from the sun 
As the tide tugs away the waves 

Last kiss as the earth begins to twist 
in a long hot summer daze

Summer Daze (less rough edit)

Final Mix

It's a compact.  It's about skeptics.  

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I Tried

Not a place in me
For make believe
Gotta touch and feel
To know that it's real
And I've seen you cry
I tried

You wrote it down this time
And when I have time
It can sit with me 
And echo
If I don't  reply
I tried

Though you may be right
sometimes

I Tried

Stopgap Solutions to Emotional Riddles. This collection of home recordings spans two years of my life. 
I'm a songwriter from Chicago, Illinois. I grew up in Roswell, New Mexico and have a deep seated loyalty to Ohio. I write, record, mix and master in my home office. I'm allergic to cats. I hope my songs get stuck in your head in the good way. Unfortunately, if it's the bad way my music is non-refundable - especially if you just ripped a copy from Craig.

Most Guitars Are Made of Trees

More Clear Now - November 24th - Song 25 - Here's a dance track for those times when you're stuck on hanging roller coasters and you just want to rock the chair you're in because you're tired of just hanging there while some mechanic/technician is deciding whether or not to call his superior or just see what happens without the bolt.  Seriously, this is that song.  A bunch of drumsticks on my lap, desk and keyboard stand.  Herky jerky angle jangle.

More Clear Now

I'm a home-recorder/songwriter from Chicago - by way of Roswell, New Mexico.  I record in my home office.   If you'd like to remix any of my tracks, let me know.  I can send raw files.

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